October, 2017

• 25 October

  Asia’s oil hub going green with floating solar, storage systems

  

  Bloomberg Singapore plans to develop solar power and energy-storage technologies as the oil-trading hub of Asia pushes to generate more of its power from renewable sources. The city-state is testing floating power projects in its reservoirs, a technology that could help solar meet as much as a quarter of electricity demand by 2025, Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean said ...

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• 25 October

  Oil steady before US stockpiles data as OPEC reassures market

  

  Bloomberg Oil was little changed before the release of US inventory data, while OPEC and its allies reassured traders that they’ll complete their strategy to clear a global crude surplus. Futures slipped 0.5 percent in New York after rising 1.1 percent. Government data on is forecast to show that inventories of crude oil fell and gasoline rose, both for the ...

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• 25 October

  JERA’s new contract with Petronas foretells smaller, shorter LNG deals

  

  TOKYO/KUALA LUMPUR / Reuters Malaysian state energy company Petroliam Nasional Bhd, or Petronas, signed a three-year liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply agreement with JERA Co, with smaller volumes and for a shorter period than its previous deal with the biggest LNG buyer in Japan. JERA, the fuel purchasing joint venture between Tokyo Electric Power and Chubu Electric Power, will buy ...

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• 25 October

  Venezuelan oil cargoes to US ports plunge as sanctions bite

  

  Bloomberg Venezuela’s biggest market for crude sales — the US — is becoming a harder and harder place for the socialist nation’s oil producer to do business as sanctions and diminishing quality controls discourage would-be buyers. Oil sales to US buyers have fallen for two straight months and now are 56 percent lower than their 2016 average, according to ship-tracking ...

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• 25 October

  Ban on new onshore wind farms may cost UK $1.3bn

  

  Bloomberg The UK’s subsidy ban for new onshore wind farms could tack 1 billion pounds ($1.3 billion) onto power bills over five years by eschewing one of the cheapest forms of clean energy. Generating power from new onshore wind farms would be 100 million pound a year cheaper than doing so from new nuclear reactors or biomass plants, and at ...

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• 25 October

  GIP to buy Equis Energy in $5bn renewable deal

  

  Bloomberg Investment fund Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) agreed to buy Equis Energy, a Singapore-based developer of renewable-power projects, for $5 billion including debt, a record for the industry. The deal includes $1.3 billion of liabilities and is expected to close in the first quarter, the companies said in a joint statement on Wednesday. Equis Energy’s portfolio of assets includes solar, ...

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• 25 October

  Infosys founder clashes with board again amid CEO hunt

  

  Bloomberg Infosys Ltd. co-founder Narayana Murthy publicly criticised the company’s board again, just as directors try to recruit a chief executive officer to replace one who resigned out of frustration with such clashes. Murthy said the board has still not addressed questions he raised in August about poor governance and excessive severance, according to a statement he released. CEO Vishal ...

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• 25 October

  Toyota to reduce investment, targets for plant in Mexico

  

  Bloomberg Toyota Motor Corp. cut planned investment by 30 percent for a factory it’s building in Mexico and halved its production target amid pressure from US President Donald Trump for manufacturers to keep more production in the US. Japan’s biggest automaker will reduce investment in the Guanajuato plant to $700 million and trim planned capacity to 100,000 units a year, ...

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• 25 October

  Japan’s sharing economy limps behind China

  Bloomberg Feel like sharing? Japan might not be your place.Once home to the world’s biggest technology drivers in the 1980s, Japan has missed the boat when it comes to expanding its sharing-economy sector. Miles behind the US and dwarfed by China by more than two thousand to one, Japan’s sharing economy is also smaller than that of other developed economies ...

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• 25 October

  Jinmao’s Hong Kong office searched in graft probe

  Bloomberg Chinese state-backed developer China Jinmao Holdings Group Ltd. said its Hong Kong office was searched in a corruption probe. The company’s shares fell as much as 3.3 percent in Hong Kong on Wednesday and JPMorgan Chase & Co. downgraded the stock. Jinmao and its units are not the subject of the investigation, the company said in a filing to ...

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